The earth has been cultivated before it has been divided; the cultivation itself having been the only motive … - Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

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Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority.

Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

The earth has been cultivated before it has been divided; the cultivation itself having been the only motive for a division, and for that law which secures to every one his property. For the first persons who have employed themselves in cultivation, have probably worked as much land as their strength would permit, and, consequently, more than was necessary for their own nourishment.

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If the land was divided among all the inhabitants of a country, so that each of them possessed precisely the quantity necessary for his support, and nothing more; it is evident that all of them being equal, no one would work for another. Neither would any of them possess wherewith to pay another for his labour, for each person having only such a quantity of land as was necessary to produce a subsistence, would consume all he should gather, and would not have any thing to give in exchange for the labour of others.

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